Dulwich - the split-personality suburb

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Dulwich, in southeast London, has a split personality. On one hand there is
affluent Dulwich Village, whose roots date to AD967 and which is awash with
elegant villas such as Pickwick Cottage — a six-bedroom home, for sale for
£3.95 million, reputed to have been used by Dickens as a setting for The
Pickwick Papers. On the other hand, there is East Dulwich, a 19th-century
suburb next to Peckham which, until the turn of this century, was largely
overrun with betting shops and fried-chicken takeaways.